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Hold Everything!

Shows · Hold Everything!

Bearing a title more applicable to a tale about wrestling, Hold Everything! was a saga of the manly art of boxing. In it, we are concerned with the ambitions of Sonny Jim Brooks (Jack Whiting), a welterweight challenger, and his girl, Sue Burke (Ona Munson), who is the cream in his coffee.

Opened
1928
Performances
413
Type
Musical
Era
Early
Music: Ray HendersonLyrics: B. G. DeSylva & Lew BrownBook: B. G. DeSylva & John McGowan

Productions1 on Broadway

1928 Broadhurst Theatre Original. October 10, 1928 · (uncredited) 413 performances

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In the literature8 passages

Flying High, however, was still something of a successor to Hold Everything! since it again put Bert Lahr in a role that enabled him to play a terrified cluck who must endure torturous preparations before he can triumph in a hazardous occupa book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p77

The fifth longest running musical of the Twenties, Good News! was the first of a quartet of breezy, youthful DeSylva, Brown and Henderson musical comedies that capitalized on popular sports, fads, occupations, and innovations. (The oth¬ er: Hold Everything!, Flying High, and Follow Thru.) book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p80

After collaborating on musical comedies about football (Good News!)and boxing (Hold Everything!), DeSylva, Brown and Henderson followed up with Follow Thru, which was about golf. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p91

McGowan, John Flying High Girl Crazy Hold Everything! book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p378

Moore, Florence Hold Everything!, 65 book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p378

Topical subjects later in the decade included bootlegging (Oh, Kay! ), the Florida land boom and land speculation (Tip-Toes and The Cocoanuts ), the Lindbergh flight (Rosalie ) and sports, the last most systematically in the B. G. DeSylva–Lew Brown– Ray Henderson trilogy that revolved around popular sports crazes: foot… book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p141

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